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In a golden period in his reporting days in Delhi, S. Nihal Singh was assigned the task of finding and interviewing a person, usually a visitor from elsewhere in India or abroad, to give a sketch of his or her interests and aspirations in life. These people ranged from such celebrities as the actor James Stewart to writers such as Mulk Raj Anand, poets like Edmund Blunden, filmmakers of the caliber of Roberto Rossellini as well as more humble folk who had ...
The Israeli-Palestinian confrontation has become a clich? of international diplomacy. Yet behind the West Asian tragedy lies a tale of heartbreaks, the enforcement of an occupation of Palestinian lands with a savagery that has few parallels in the Post-World War II era, the Palestinian resort to suicide bombings as a desperate attempt to change the status quo and an American attitude that has veered between tolerance of blatant settlement building to downright ...